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Class of 1847 



THE CENTENNIAL CLASS 



College of New Jersey 



PRINCETON, N.J. 
Now Princeton University 



Consisting of Brief Biographies of its 
Members from 1847 to 1907 



Compiled by its Historian and Secretary 
HENRY B. MUNN and ALFRED MARTIEN 

With Portraits of the Faculty and the Class 



Printed for the Class 

PATTERSON & WHITE CO. 

518 Ludlow St., Philadelphia 

1907 






Gift 
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Contents 



PAGH 

View of College Grounds and Buildings in 1847. . .Frontispiece 

Title Page 1 

Contents 3 

Preface 5 

Faculty, 1843-1847 15 

Portraits of Professors, 1843-1847 16 

Junior Orators — Class of 1847 17 

Editors of the Nassau Monthly. — Class of 1847 18 

Class of 1847 — ^Commencement Exercises 19 

Members of Class, 1843-1847 21 

Biographies of the Members 24 

Classmates Who Were Present at the Reunion of the Class 

on June 10, 1902 89 

Finis 91 



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Preface 



S only the salient facts in the history of 
each member of the class, subsequent to 
leaving college, are given, a brief de- 
scription of the Faculty, the college grounds 
and buildings, and the customs, habits and man- 
ner of life during its undergraduate course is 
here given as an introduction. 

This period embraced what has been fitly 
termed a portion of the Golden Era of the Col- 
lege. The class commenced with its Freshman 
year in 1843, and closed with its Senior in 1847, 
in the midst of the college centennial celebra- 
tion, and was therefore called the Centennial 
Class. 

Its membership during the Freshman year 
was nine, and during its Sophomore, fifty-two; 
during its Junior, seventy-five, and during its 
Senior, sixty-five, of which number sixty-three 
received the degree of A.B. at the Commence- 
ment. 

When the class started, the Faculty consisted 



of Dr. James Carnahan, President; Dr. John 
Maclean, Vice President and professor of 
Greek; Joseph Henry, of natural philosophy; 
Albert B. Dod, of mathematics; Stephen A\ex- 
ander, of astronomy; John Torrej^, of chemis- 
try and botany; James W. Alexander, of helles- 
letfres; Evert M. Topping, of ancient languages. 
In 1846 Matthew B. Hope was appointed pro- 
fessor of rhetoric, and in 1844 and 1845 
George M. Giger, Nathan M. Owen and John T. 
Dufifield were tutors. Charles S. Olden was the 
treasurer and William CMow the steward. 

Of the foregoing-named professors, James W, 
Alexander resigned during the Sophomore, and 
Professor Albert B. Dod died during the first 
term of the Junior year of the class. The loss of 
these professors was much regretted. Both 
were very popular with the students because of 
their culture and eloquent lectures on belles- 
lettres and architecture. Professor Topping 
resigned during the Senior year. Though in ill 
health, he was much esteemed for his knowledge 
of the classics. The remainder of those named 
except Professor Hope, were members of the 
Faculty during the whole college life of class. 

President Carnahan graduated in 1800; in 
1801 was made tutor and in 1823 elected presi- 
dent. He was now in his forty-seventh year, in 
appearance and manner a type of the old- 
school Presbvterian minister as well as that of 



the old-school country gentleman. He was of 
stalwart build and inclined to be portly ; wore a 
snow-white cravat and dressed in plain dark 
clothes. His enunciation was always clear and 
precise, and his expression mild and benevolent. 
With cane in hand he walked about the college 
grounds or to his lecture room with a quiet, dig- 
nified step. By the students he was called ''Old 
Boss," not in any disrespect, but as a tribute to 
his personality. His natural modesty, even 
temper, firmness and patience under exasperat- 
ing provocation, his cordial, kindly greeting, his 
earnest teaching in the lecture room and his 
pleadings for the adoption of sound principles 
for life's government are among the cherished 
memories of the class. He resigned in 1854 on 
account of old age. 

Professor John Maclean graduated in 1811. 
After serving as tutor and professor in various 
branches, was elected vice president in 1829, 
and on the resignation of Dr. Carnahan in 1854, 
was made president. He was in the prime of 
life during the career of the class. While not 
distinguished in any branch of learning, he was 
an all-round scholar and often supplied the 
place of a sick or absent professor. His ac- 
tivity, energy, kindness, enthusiasm and over- 
sight pervaded the whole college. He seemed 
to have personal knowledge of the condition and 
characteristics of every student and to have all 

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and each under his special supervision. Being 
a bachelor, he seemed to look upon the college 
as his better half, and all its students as mem- 
bers of his family, as he seemed able to call 
them by name even in the dark. The slightest 
indication of a frolic, revelry or escapade, 
whether in the college buildings or in the cam- 
pus, or in the streets of the village, would find 
him on the alert. After dark he carried a 
lantern, wore rubber shoes, and at most times 
a beaver hat of the Archaic type. The cry, 
"there comes Johnnie," promptly silenced 
any boisterous grou}) or sent its members fly- 
ing to their rooms. His tap! tap! tap! on the 
door was instantly recognized, and all forbidden 
things were promptly concealed before he was 
invited to enter. Often, instead of having a 
student he had caught violating the rules sum- 
moned before the Faculty, he would administer 
a rebuke, and he seldom rebuked without mak- 
ing a friend. He alone, of all the Faculty, 
seemed to be the closest in touch with the stu- 
dent life. Dear "old Johnnie," loved and be- 
loved. Because of the infirmities that come 
with old age, he was obliged in 1868 to lay aside 
the strenuousness of his college life. The re- 
mainder of it was spent in writing a history of 
the Alma Mater he had loved so well and so long. 
Professors Joseph Henry, Stephen Alexander 
and John Torrey were all scientists of inter- 

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national reputation in their lines of thought and 
study, and seldom mingled with the students in 
their outdoor life. In their lecture rooms they 
attracted and interested and instructed all with 
their learning. 

The college grounds consisted of about four 
and one-half acres, oblong in shape, with a 
frontage of about 300 feet on the south side of 
Nassau Street, upon which the buildings were 
arranged as shown in the frontispiece. The 
principal one, Nassau Hall, or ''Old North," as 
it was usually called, was three stories above 
the basement, with a cupola, in which hung the 
college bell. The chapel, a room about forty 
feet square, was in this building. Its only orna- 
ment was an oil painting of Washington, re- 
calling the battle of Princeton in 1777. The 
pulpit, the platform about it and the seats for 
the students were all of Puritan plainness. 
Here, morning and evening, during week days 
and again on Sunday, all of the students as- 
sembled for prayer and answered to roll call. 
The roll of each class was also called at its reci- 
tations and examinations. In the basement of 
"Old North" the janitor kept a secondhand 
furniture depot for the convenience of students. 
The remainder of the building was used for dor- 
mitories of tutors and students. East and West 
Colleges were for dormitories. In the basement 
of Philosophical and Chemical Hall was the col- 



lege commons or refectory; in the upper part 
were the lecture room and laboratories of Pro- 
fessors Henry and Torrey. Nearby was the 
steward's house. There was an additional com- 
mons east of East College, styled the Poor 
House, because of the reduced j^rice of board 
and the absence of the tutors. During the life 
of the class it became very popular. 

There were recitation rooms on both floors of 
the Library, and near it a brick dwelling in which 
Professor Henry resided. In the rear of the 
middle, or back campus, stood Cliosophic and 
Whig Halls, and in the center of this campus 
was planted the ' * old cannon. ' ' The residences 
of the president and vice president were near 
the street, and on each side of the front campus. 
In the rear of the former was the Faculty room, 
with door opening into the campus. This was 
in fact the president's office, but was known to 
the students as the "Court House.'' ^ 

These buildings were so arranged as to make 
the group unique and perfectly suited for the 
student life of that day. With the exception of 
Clio and Whig Halls, which were modeled after 
a Grreek temple, they were plain, rugged, sub- 
stantial structures, with rooms heated in the 
winter by open wood fires in the ' ' Old North, ' ' by 
open grates in East and West Colleges, and by 
stoves in the chapel, halls and recitation rooms. 
There were no bath or toilet rooms. Water was 

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supplied from two pumps that stood in the rear 
of ' ' Old North, ' ' and with the fuel, was carried 
to the rooms. Oil lamps furnished the light. 

The character and arrangement of these 
buildings with their environments represented 
the thought and work of the plain, earnest and 
strong men who had during the past century 
devised and constructed them. Many, at least, 
of the older graduates regret that the old group- 
ing has not been kept entire, both as an historic 
monument to the memory of their founders and 
builders as well as an illustration of the condi- 
tions of the old college life. 

Under the distinguished professors already 
mentioned, and in and about the buildings 
shown and described, the class passed its under- 
graduate life. Its daily round consisted of 
morning prayers, breakfast, study hour, morn- 
ing recitation, dinner, study hour, afternoon 
recitation, evening prayers, supper. The hour 
for retiring was 10 P. M., when the tutors made 
their rounds. 

This daily round varied on Friday night, for 
attendance at the exercises in the ''Halls," and 
on Sunday, when there were no recitations, but 
all had to attend the early and late prayers and 
a morning sermon in the chapel. 

There was no special dress required or pro- 
hibited. In the summer time ordinary dressing 
gowns were largely worn, and in the winter a 

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student, or Spanish cloak. The members of the 
different classes mingled socially. As a rule the 
close associations were between the members of 
the same hall. This was due to the rivalry be- 
tween them and the profound secrecy of their 
proceedings. But as a rule, except when hall 
rivalry was dominant, there was at all times a 
pleasant and friendly intercourse. 

The honors sought by the ambitious members 
of the class, were the Junior Oratorship, Editor- 
ship of the Nassau Monthly, the First Honor for 
highest mark in study, the assignment of a 
Speech at Commencement and the Valedictory 
Oration. 

The Junior orators were eight — four from 
each hall and were assigned to speak in public 
the evening before Commencement. 

The Editors of the Nassau Monthly were four 
in number for the Senior year — two from each 
hall. Each one of the four had charge of the 
magazine for a month. 

The Faculty selected the speakers for Com- 
mencement, as well as the First-Honor Man and 
the Valedictorian. 

In looking back over the college days of the 
class, there are only dim memories of its stu- 
dent life as embraced in its daily routine, yet 
the memories of the interruptions of that life 
by sports, good comradeship, pranks and esca- 
pades seem to grow brighter as the graduate 

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grows older. In those far-away days there were 
few avenues through which exuberant youth 
could find a strictly lawful vent. There were no 
college songs. Athletics were confined to the 
shinny stick or a stroll to the canal, or a constitu- 
tional to Jugtown, And so at times some tradi- 
tional prank was played, like rolling heated can- 
non balls along the halls of "Old North" for the 
tutors to pick up ; the stealing of the clapper of 
the college bell, or turning it up on a cold night 
and filling it with water in order that it might 
not call to morning prayers; the barricading 
"Old North" on a cold night when the tutors 
and most of the students were at supper. These 
and many others cling to the old graduate's 
memory. While he has forgotten his Grreek, 
Latin, Mathematics and Lectures on Philosophy, 
he recalls easily Professor Henry's experiments 
with Electricity, when he sent the current 
through the wires and through the class; of 
Professor Torrey's laughing-gas illustrations; 
the proposal of Professor Stephen Alexander 
that his head should modestly represent the sun 
as he placed it in the center of his Orrery; of 
President Carnahan's illustration of the asso- 
ciation of ideas, with the story of the Swiss 
immigrant who, on sight of a lot of "Swiss 
cheese" on a dock on the North River, as the 
boat landed, exclaimed, "Oh! my country! my 
country ! ' ' 

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An old graduate, in writing about the under- 
graduate life of Princeton, has happily said : 

''Memories sad as well as sweet, serious as 
well as ludicrous, crowd upon the mind of every 
son of Nassau who takes a pen in hand to write 
of the happy days gone by. No college has a 
life more crammed with mirth and humor, of 
youthful exuberance; none is richer in historic 
association and sacred tradition; none more 
free from vicious influence and corrupting ex- 
ample. Her sons look back with pride and 
l^leasure, not only to the solid instruction re- 
ceived at her hands, but to the royal times spent 
beneath her shades. 'Oh, happy years! once 
more, who would not be a boy ! ' " 



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Faculty, 1843-1847 



EEY. JAMES CAKNAHAN, D.D. 

President 

EEY. JOHN MACLEAN, D.D. 

Vice President, and Professor of the Greek Language and 
Literature 

JOSEPH HENEY, M.D., LL.D. 

Professor of Natural Philosophy 

JOHN TOEEEY, M.D., LL.D. 

Professor of Chemistry and Natural History 

*EEY. ALBEET B. DOD, D.D. 
Professor of Mathematics and Architecture 

STEPHEN ALEXANDEE, A.M. 

Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy 

tEEY. JAMES W. ALEXANDEE, D.D. 

Professor of Belles-Lettres 

EEY. MATTHEW B. HOPE, M.D. 

Professor of Belles-Lettres 

IJEYEET M. TOPPING, A.M. 
Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages 

A. CAEDOXT DE SANDEANS 
Teacher of the French Language 

GEOEGE MUSGEAYE GIGEE, A.M. 
Senior Tutor and Assistant Teacher of Mathematics 

A. ALEXANDEE HODGE, A.M. 
Tutor 

N. MEEEITT OWEN, A.M. 

Tutor 

JOHN T. DUFFIELD, A.M. 
Tutor and Registrar 

HENEY J. DAYID 

Teacher p7'o tern., of the German Language 



■'^ Died in 1845. f Resigned in 1844. ^ Resigned in 1847- 

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PORTRAITS OF PROFESSORS, 1843-1847 



Class of 1847 

Junior Orators, Tuesday Evening, June 23, 1846 



William A. Blevins, Alabama, Subject, "Principle a Reality" 

Daniel Elliott, Georgia 

Subject, "Science, Not Literature, Demanded by the Age" 

Robert Foster, New York .... Subject, "Man — the Age" 



William H. Armstrong, Pennsylvania 

Subject, "Public Opinion" 



George M. Robeson, New Jersey 

Subject, "Our Nation's Sympathies" 

William Henry Welsh, Pennsylvania 

Subject, "The Spirit's Melodies" 

Charles H. Key, District of Columbia 

Subject, "Modern Heroism" 

Hiestee Clymer, Pennsylvania, Subject, "Mythical Philosophy" 



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Editors of the "Nassau Monthly" 



Robert Foster, December, 1846 — No. IV, Vol. VI 
^^•lLLIAM A. Blevins, March, 1847— No. V, Vol. VI 
Beverley R. Wellford, Jr., April, 1847 — No. VI, Vol. VI 
HiESTER Clymer, May, 1847— No. VII, Vol. VI 



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Class of 1847 

Comtnencement Exercises, June 30, 1847 



SPEAKERS 

Henry Rinker, Pennsylvania .... "Latin Salutatory" 

Henry Clay Cameron, District of Columbia 

English Salutatory, "Ancient Literature'' 

John M. Candor, Illinois, "Development of American Mind" 

•^N. A. Cooper Seward, New Jersey, 

"A Nation's Glory — Its Distinguished Few" 

Music 

"Thaddeus a. Culbertson, Pennsylvania, 

"Motives Give Moral Character to Action" 

T. Scott H. McCay, Mississippi 

"The Advantages of the American Orator and Poet" 

John Gosman, New York, "The True Principle of Action" 

D. S. G. Cabell, District of Columbia . . "Success in Life" 

Music 

Henry B. Munn, New Jersey . . "The Spirit of the Age" 

Robert Foster, New Jersey "Eclecticism" 

Joseph M. Pittenhouse, New Jersey, "The Claims of Truth" 

William H. Armstrong, Pennsylvania 

"National Amusements" 

*Samuel Henry Orton, New Jersey. .. ."Self Acquaintance" 

Music 
Samuel B. Smith, New Jersey . . ' The Forgotten Great" 
Frederic B. Ogden, New Jersey . "The Legal Profession" 
Edward P. Guerard, South Carolina, ' English Radicalism" 

*Excused. 

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Music 

W. Silas Whitehead. Ncav Jersey, '"The Religions of Nature" 

James M. Johns, Delaware . "The Influence of .Vuthors" 

William Wallace Marsh, New Jersey 

"The Tomb Does Not Take All Away" 

Edward Pugh, Louisiana . "The Talisman of Greatness" 

Music 

HiESTER Clymer, Pennsylvania 

"The Realization of the Ideal" 

George M. Robeson, New Jersey 

"Our Institutions Favorable to the Cultivation of Eloquence" 

Samuel J. Milliken, Pennsylvania 

"Things Seen and Unseen" 

W'lLLiAM Sergeant, Pennsylvania, 

"Labor improbus non omnia vincit" 

Music 

Augustine H. Fish, New Jersey 

"Public Opinion Not the Standard of Truth" 

William H. Welsh, Pennsylvania 

A Poem, "The Martyr Spirit" 

Music 

Conferring of Degree of A.B. 

Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr., Virginia 

"Valedictory Oration" 



At 4 P. M. the Alumni and invited guests formed in 
procession and marched to the campus in the rear of Nassau 
Hall, where tables were spread beneath a spacious and com- 
modious tent for the accommodation of about seven hundred 
persons. The banquet to celebrate the Centennial was then 
served and followed by eloquent addresses. 

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Members of Class 

1843-1847 



00 — Left before graduating. 

A.B. — Degree conferred on graduation. 

A.M. — Degree conferred after graduation. 

Figures indicate the year in which a member died. 

Members surviving in 1907 are marked "living." 

Adlek, John Mekcer (District of Columbia), A.B. and 

A.M 1904 

Anthony, Daniel Gbafius (Pennsylvania), A.B 1859 

Armstrong, William Hepburn ( Pennsylvania ) , A.B. and 

A.M living 

Bacon, Frederic ( Canada) , A.B 1902 

Barber, John V. (Pennsylvania), 00 living 

Bartlett, Henry Clay (TSTev^' Jersey) , A.B 1864 

Benbury, John Avery (North Carolina). A.B. and A.M. .1862 
Berry, William Henry (District of Columbia), A.B. and 

A.M 1859 

Blevins, William Armstrong (Alabama), A.B 1853 

BouDiNOT, Richard Stockton (New Jersey) , 00 1845 

BuNN, John Wesley (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1852 

Cabell, David S. Garland (Virginia) , A.B 1893 

Cameron. Henry Clay ( District of Columbia ) , A.B. and 

A.M. 1906 

Candor, John Montgomery ( Illinois) , A.B 1849 

Carothers, Thomas Leander (South Carolina), A.B... 1891 

Clark, Robert Breckinridge (Mainland), A.B 1905 

Colt, Morgan Gibbs (New Jersey) , 00 1894 

Clymer. Hiester (Pennsylvania), A.B. and AM 1884 

Culbertson, Thaddeus x\insworth (Pennsylavnia), A.B. , 1850 

CuTHBERT, Alfred (Georgia) , A.B. and A.M 1880 

Dalrymple, Aaron Pitney (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1894 

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Davison, James Finley (Now Jersey), A.B 1850 

DiLLARD, James Willis (North Carolina), A.B 1882 

Elliott, Daniel Stewart (Georgia) , 00 1862 

Epperson, Benjamin H. (Texas) , 00 1878 

Faison, Julian Poydras (North Carolina), 00 1892 

Fish, Augustine Hallet (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1872 
FoRTiER, PoLYCARp Lucius (Louisiana), A.B. and A.M., 1877 

Foster, Robert (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1894 

Fountain, Ezra James (New York), A.B. and A.M 1861 

Glassell, John (Virginia) , A.B living 

GosMAN, John (New York) , A.B. and A.M 1903 

Grant, Seth Hastings (New York), 00 and A.M living 

Grymes, \Villiam Shepherd (Virginia) , 00 1891 

Guerard, Edward P. (South Carolina), A.B 1865 

Howard, Francis Key (Maryland ) , 00 1872 

Johns, James Montgomery (District of Columbia) , A.B. , 1880 

Johns, Montgomery' (Maryland) , A.B. and A.M 1871 

Jones, Eusebius Lee (District of Columbia), A.B. and 

A.M 1876 

Key, Charles Howard (District of Columbia), A.B. and 

A.M 1869 

Lloyd, Edward ( ^Maryland ) , A.B living 

Marsh, \Yii.liam Wallace (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1892 

Martien, Alfred (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M living 

Maxwell, Charles Edward (Georgia) , A.B 1852 

McCay, Thomas Scott Henderson (Mississippi), A.B. ..1882 

McFarland, James Robert (Virginia) , 00 1859 

McKee, John Henry ( South Carolina) , A.B 1860 

McKnight, Charles (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M 1881 

MiLLiKEN, Samuel John (Pennsylvania) , A.B 1900 

Moore, Isaiah N. ( Pennsylvania) , 00 1862 

Moore, Samuel ( Delaware) , A.B 1852 

MuNN, Henry Benson (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., living 
Murdoch, Thomas Fridge (Maryland), A.B. and A.M. ..1901 
Ogden, Frederic Beasley (New Jersey). A.B. and A.M.. .1893 

Olden, Joseph (New Jersey) , 00 1886 

Oliver, Henry Hunter (Alabama), A.B. and A.M 1864 

Okton, Samuel Henry (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1892 

PuGH, David Bryan (Louisiana) , 00 1886 

Pugh, Edward F. (Louisiana) , A.B 1870 

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RiNKER, Henry (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M living 

RiTTENHOUSE, JosEPH Menagh (New JersejOj A.B. and 

A.M 1903 

Robeson, George Maxwell (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1897 

Sergeant, William (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M 1865 

Seward, Nathan A. Cooper (New Jersey), A.B. and 

A.M 1856 

Shewalter, George William (Virginia), A.B. and A.M. .1877 

Shewmake, John T. (Georgia) , 00 1898 

Smith, Samuel Batnton (New Jersey) , A.B 1886 

Smithfeter, William (Tennessee) , A.B 1904 

Stevenson, David (New York) , 00 1901 

Stonestreet, Joseph Harris (Maryland) , A.B 1895 

Sturgess, John R. ( Georgia) , 00 1862 

Strother, John Hunt (Missouri) , A.B 1861 

Swope, John Augustus (Pennsylvania), A.B living 

Taylor, William (Virginia) , 00 1891 

Tingle, William Stuart Williamson (Maryland) .... 1866 

ToLAND, Henry ( Pennsylvania) , A.B 1858 

Todd, George W. (Pennsylvania) , 00 1875 

Wellford, Beverley Randolph, Jr. (Virginia), A.B. and 

A.M living 

Welsh, William Henry (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M., 1903 

White, William L. (Kentucky) ,00 not known 

Whitehead, John Randolph (Georgia) , 00 1876 

Whitehead, James Troupe (Georgia) , A.B 1889 

Whitehead, William Silas (New Jersey), A.B. and 

A.M 1905 

WiLLSON, Alpheus Evans (Pennsylvania), A.B. and 

A.M 1884 

Wright, William E. (Missouri), 00 not known 



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Biographies 




John Mercer Adler 

Taken at ti6 



Abler, John Mercer. Born 
August 9, 1828, at George- 
town, District of Columbia. 
Entered Junior. Studied 
medicine. In 1852 went to 
Panama as surgeon of the 
railroad company, with his 
classmate, Fountain, who 
left there in 1853 on account 
of impaired health and lo- 
cated at Davenport, Iowa, where Adler joined 
him in 1855. On the breaking out of the Civil 
War he was appointed United States surgeon 
of the Military Establishment of the State of 
Iowa, and continued in charge to the close of 
the war, in 1865. Then removed to Philadel- 
phia and continued in successful practice of his 
profession till his death, February 11, 1904, in 
his seventy-fifth year. In 1857 married Harriet 
B. Gilbert, of Philadelphia, who, with three 
daughters survived him. 

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Daniel Graflus 
Anthony 

Taken at 22 



Anthony^ Daniel Grafius. 
Born September 27, 1825, at 
Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Sophomore. Read 
law and practiced in his na- 
tive town till his death, July 
29, 1859, in his thirty-fourth 
year. In 1848 married Re- 
gina McDowell, of Williams- 
port, who died in June, 1859. 
They had four children. 

Armstrong, William Hepburn. Born Sep- 
tember 7, 1824, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Sophomore. Studied law with his 
father. Was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 
1851 married Miss Annie Earp, of Philadelphia. 
In 1854 removed to Pliiladel]ihia, wliere he 
practiced until 1856, when 
his health failing, he trav- 
eled in Europe for one 
year, and on his return, 
under medical advice, re- 
sumed practice at Williams- 
port with his father. In 
1859, and again in 1860, was 
elected a member of the Leg- 
islature of Pennsylvania. 
In 1860 was the Republican 
candidate for Speaker of the House. Gave way 
to a ''War Democrat" that the House might 




William Hepburn 
Armstrong 

Taken at 74 



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be organized in the interests of the Republican 
party. Was chairman of the Committee on 
Ways and Means. His report passed the House 
in one day and without amendment. Was one 
of the Committee of the House to meet Mr. Lin- 
coln, president-elect, at the Ohio State line and 
escort him to Washington. In 1870 was a mem- 
ber of the Forty-first United States Congress. 
Was the author of the resolution authorizing 
and requiring the President to establish rules 
and regulations for the Civil Service — the be- 
ginning of the present Civil Service of the 
United States. Was the author of the resolution 
which declared that Congress would not there- 
after recognize any Indian tribe as a power with 
whom they would contract by treaty. This set- 
tled the long controversy in which the Senate 
claimed the exclusive right to ratify Indian 
treaties, and the House denying the right of the 
Senate to make Indian treaties which obliged 
the House to make appropriations of money 
without their consent. In 1873 he was elected 
delegate-at-large to the convention to reform the 
constitution of Pennsylvania. Was chairman 
of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the 
author of the system which abolished the Dis- 
trict and Nisi Priiis Courts as separate organi- 
zations, and established the Courts of Common 
Pleas in uniform organization and jurisdiction 
throughout the State. Also of the provision 

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which established distinctive Orphans' Courts to 
audit and pass upon accounts of decedents with- 
out reference to masters and without expense to 
the parties. In 1880 he was a delegate-at-large 
to the Republican Convention at Chicago, and 
served on the same committee with Mr. Garfield. 
Was one of the 306 steadfast supporters of 
Grant. He was appointed United States Com- 
missioner of Eailroads by President Arthur, 
which office he retained until the first election of 
President Cleveland, when he resigned. In 1884 
his wife died. He never afterwards married. 
There were four children born to him, two sons 
and two daughters — one son and one daughter 
now (1907) living. In 1886 he removed to Phila- 
delphia, but did not resume the general practice 
of the law, although he accepted engagements in 
a few important cases. In 1899 he accepted the 
office of president of the Mexican Plantation 
Company, a tropical plantation of 5500 acres; 
and in 1904 he accepted the presidency of the 
International Lumber and Development Com- 
pany — a company owning title in fee to 288,000 
acres in Mexico, 20,000 acres of which are being 
cultivated to henequin, rubber, and other trop- 
ical products. 

Bacon^ Fredekic. Born March 18, 1824, at 
Hatleyborough, Lower Canada, to which place 
his parents had removed from New England. 
Resided for some years, while young, with rel- 

27 



atives in Georgia, where he was prepared for 
college. Entered Sophomore. After gradua- 
tion returned to his former home in Canada and 
engaged in agricultural imrsuits. Later in life 
became blind, but remained on the farm till his 
death. May 28, 1902, in his seventy-ninth year. 
Was very highly esteemed and respected by his 
acquaintances for his learning and sound judg- 
ment. Married, and left one son, now (1906) 
Treasurer of a Mercantile Co., Louisville, Ky. 

Barber, John V. Born 
May 19, 1824, White 
Springs, Union County, 
Pennsylvania. Entered 
Sophomore. Left in 1845 
on account of poor health. 
Then lived on a farm for 
ten years. Health having 
improved, though never ro- 
bust, moved to Mifflinburg, 
Pennsylvania, and engaged 
and continued in mercantile business for nearly 
thirty years. Subsequently not in any active 
business. Has been superintendent of Sunday 
schools some forty years: an elder in the Pres- 
l)yterian Church nearly half a century. 

Bartlett, Henry Clay. Born April 10, 1827, 
at Stanhope, New Jersey. Entered Sophomore. 
Studied law. Afterwards engaged in banking 

28 




John V. Barber 

Taken at 72 




and the brokerage business. Was successful. 
Retired, and spent a year in Texas, then made 
his residence in Caldwell, 
New Jersey. On the breaking; 
out of the Civil War, raised 
a company and joined the 
Seventh Regiment, New Jer- 
sey Volunteers, August 28, 
1861. Was in the Army of 
the Potomac and com- 
manded his regiment in the 
seven-days ' fight before 

-,^. T , ^r- • ■ T Henry Clay Bartlett 

Richmond, Virginia, and Taken at 31 

was praised for gallantry. His health failing, 
resigned January 14, 1863, and returned home. 
Subsequently was appointed a captain in the 
133d Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and be- 
came part of the Army of Tennesee. Was mor- 
tally wounded while leading a battalion against 
the enemy's works at ''Dug Gap," near Dalton, 
Georgia, May 8, 1864. Died the next day, in his 
thirty-eighth year. Married, January 13, 1854, 
Mary E. Russell. Issue, four daughters — Gen- 
evieve, Minnie, Lydia and Josea. 

Benbury_, John Avery. Born February 9, 
1827, at Sandy Point, Chowan County, North 
Carolina. Entered Junior. Read law and fol- 
lowed planting. In 1859 became a member of 
the House of Commons of North Carolina. On 
the secession of his State volunteered in the 

29 




Confederate Army and was commissioned first 
lieutenant, Company A, First Regiment, North 
Carolina State Troops, 
afterwards promoted to 
captain. Was mortally 
wounded at the battle of 
Malvern Hills, and died in 
Richmond, Virginia, four 
days later — July 4, 1862 — 
in his thirty-sixth year. 
Married Harriet Ryan, of 
T , , o , AVindsor, Bertie Countv, 

John Avery Benbury ' 

Taken at 36 Nortli CaroHua. Left sur- 

viving, his wife and one child — a daughter. 

Berry, William Henry. Born December 3, 
1827, at Georgetown, District of Columbia. 
Entered Sophomore. Studied medicine. Tn 
1850, in company with his 
classmate, Thomas F. Mur- 
doch, went to Europe and 
pursued his studies in Paris 
till 1853, when he returned 
and practiced his profession 
in Washington, District of 
Columbia, until his death, 
February 19, 1859, in his 

thirty-first year. Wiinam Hemy Beny 

'' "^ Taken at 25 

Blevins, William Armstrong. Was born 
May 10, 1827, at Pleasant Valley, near Selma, 

30 




Alabama, Entered Freshman. Was one of the 
Junior orators at the Commencement of 1846. 
Was also one of the class editors of the Nassau 
Monthly/. After graduating, returned to his 
father's home, Pleasant Valley. His father 
being a wealthy planter, he did not feel the 
necessity of acquiring a profession, and like 
most of the Southern men of that period, led a 
life of social ease and pleasure. He married, in 
the winter of 1848, Miss Mary Weaver, of 
Selma; and died at that place, September 14, 
1853, of yellow fever, in his twenty-seventh 
year, esteemed and loved by his family and 
friends. 

BouDiNOT^ Richard Stock- 
ton. Born February 24, 1828, 
at Newark, New Jersey. 
Entered the Sophomore. 
Died while in college from 
a wound received by the ac- 
cidental discharge of his 
gun. The Nassau Monthly 
of October, 1845, says: 
''About ten days ago our 
fellow student, R. Stockton Boudinot, a mem- 
ber of the Junior class, dangerously wounded 
himself while on a hunting excursion with 
some of his friends. Our college has been 
thrown into gloom over this sad event." 
And in the November number, continues : 

31 




R. Stockton Boudinot 

Taken at 17 



"The morning was delightful and bright with 
anticipated enjoyment, when our fellow student 
a few weeks since went forth on a day's ex- 
cursion. But, alas, the instrument of pleas- 
ure became to him the minister of death! On 
the evening of the Sal)bath, November 2, 1845, 
he calmly and peacefully breathed his last." In 
his nineteenth year. 

BuNN, John Wesley. 
Born 1826, near Pennington, 
in the State of New Jer- 
sey. Entered Junior. Be- 
came a teacher. Taught one 
year, then went to Europe, 
being in poor health. At 
the end of a year returned 
and became principal of a 
private school in Haddon- 
field. New Jersey. Was there 
attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs. Died at 
the home of his parents, in Pennington, of con- 
sumption, January 19, 1852, in his twenty-sixth 
year. 

Cabell> David S. Garland. Born June 23, 
1825, in Amherst County, Virginia. Entered 
Sophomore. Read law. In 181:9 appointed 
clerk in the United States General Land Office. 
In 1853 resigned and commenced practice of law 
at New Market, Nelson County, Virginia, and fol- 
lowed it in four counties till the commencement 




John Wesley Biinn 

Taken at 2:, 



32 




David S. Garland 
Cabell 

Taken at 42 



of the Civil War. During the war held both mili- 
tary and civil positions in Virginia. At its 
close was elected to the Vir- 
ginia State Senate for four 
years, taking his seat De- 
cember 4, 1865, and was an 
active member, as shown by 
its journals. In 1871-4, was 
professor in the Norwood 
high school and college, Nel- 
son County, Virginia. At 
the expiration of his profes- 
sorship, resumed the prac- 
tice of law. During most of his life was a pro- 
lific writer for newspapers, magazines, and peri- 
odicals. Died August 14, 1893, at the home of 
his brother, in Virginia, in his sixty-ninth year. 
Was never married. 

Camekon^ Heney Clay, 
Born September 1, 1827, at 
Shepherdstown, Virginia 
(now West Virginia). 
Entered Junior. Engaged 
in teaching in a private 
family in King George 
County, Virginia, for three 
years. In 1850 entered the 
Theological Seminary, 
Princeton, New Jersey. In 1852 became tutor 
of Greek in the college at Princeton, and on 

33 




Henry Clay Cameron 

Taken at 78 



finishing his course in the seminary, in 1855, 
was appointed adjunct professor of Greek, In 
1858 was licensed to preach, and in 1861 was or- 
dained to the ministry in the Presbyterian 
Churcli and was a member of the General As- 
sembly in 1875 and again in 1887, again in 1900. 
Visited Europe four times and liad many in- 
teresting experiences in his travels. Has de- 
livered in different places interesting addresses 
and written valuable articles for leading peri- 
odicals. His life has been devoted to the best in- 
terests of the college, both as professor and ad- 
ministrative officer. Received honorary degrees 
from Princeton and other colleges. Died, Oc- 
tober 25, 1906, in his eightieth year, after under- 
going a surgical operation. Married, Septem- 
ber 14, 1858, Miss Mina Chollet. Had two chil- 
dren, one of whom, Arnold Guyot, born July, 
1859, is living. His wife and son survive him. 

Candoe, John Montgomery. Born in the year 
1825, in Union County, Pennsylvania. Entered 
Soi)homore. After graduation entered the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, where he died, 
November 13, 1849, of consumption, in his 
twenty-fourth year. Was highly esteemed, and 
his body was accompanied by a portion of his 
fellow students to the place of his burial, Dan- 
ville, Pennsj^lvania. 

Carothers, Thomas Leander. Born June 25, 
1821, in Union District, South Carolina. En- 

34 




Thomas Leander 
Carothers 

Taken at 55 



tered Senior. Engaged in teaching. Became 
the president of Washington College, east 
Tennessee. Subsequently lo- 
cated at Decatur, Alabama. 
Spent many years teaching 
in Houston, Aberdeen, and 
West Point, Mississippi. 
Was a most successful edu- 
cator. Enjoyed splendid 
health until Christmas Eve, 
1890, when on his way to an 
entertainment given by the 
Sunday school of his church, 
he was thrown from his buggy and sustained in- 
juries from which he died October 1, 1891, in 
his seventy-first year. Was an active member 
of the Presbyterian Church. Married, December 
1848, Mary E. Miller, of Chickasaw County, 
Mississippi. Left four sons and two daughters. 

Clark, Robert Breckinridge. Born April 2, 
1824, in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Sopho- 
more. Studied law. Practiced for a year or 
two, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and 
followed merchandizing. Made a respectable 
fortune and lost it. Then accepted the position 
of superintendent of the office of Recorder of 
Deeds, in St. Louis. In charge for sixteen years 
and on account of age, withdrew about 1900. 
Married, in 1858, Miss Gaither, of Frederick, 
Maryland. In 1896 had living, three children — 

35 




Robert Breckinridge 
Clarlv 

Taken at 74 



two sons, Eobert and Stuart, and one daughter, 
Mrs. Harvey G. Mudd. 
After leaving the Record- 
er's office, passed the spring 
and summer of each year 
with son and daughter in St. 
Louis, and the fall and 
winter with his other son, re- 
siding in Meriden, Missis- 
sippi. While with the latter, 
died suddenly of apoplexy, 
October 18, 1905, in his 
eighty-second year. Was buried on the follow- 
ing Saturday, at Frederick, Maryland, by the 
side of his mother. 

Colt, Morgan Gibbs. 
Born March 10, 1826, at 
Paterson, New Jersey. En- 
tered Sophomore. Left in 
1815. Inherited a large for- 
tune. Studied no profes- 
sion. Married, October 27, 
1857, Miss Mary Burrows. 
Died April 10, 1891, in his 
sixty-eighth year. 

Clymee, Hiester. Born November 3, 1827. 
Caernarvon, Berks County, Pennsylvania, En- 
tered Junior. Studied law. Practiced in Potts- 
ville, and Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1860 was a 
delegate to the National Democratic Convention 

36 




Morgan Gibbs Colt 

Taken at 24 




Hiester Clymer 

Taken at 53 



at its sessions in Charleston and Baltimore, In 
the Pennsylvania State Senate from October, 
1860 to 1866, in March, 
when he was nominated by 
the Democrats for gover- 
nor. Was defeated. In 
1868 delegate to the Na- 
tional Democratic Conven- 
tion in New York. Visited 
Europe 1870-1871. Presi- 
dent of Democratic State 
Convention at Reading, 
Pennsylvania, in 1872. Was 
elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty- 
fifth and Forty-sixth United States Congress. 
Retired to private life after March 4, 1881. De- 
voted himself to business pursuits. Married, in 
1856, Elizabeth Mary Brooke, of Birdsboro, 
Pennsylvania. She died in 1870. Married, 
second time. Miss Minnie Clement, of St. Louis, 
Missouri. Died suddenly at his home in Read- 
ing, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1884, in his fifty- 
seventh year, as reported in the newspapers, 
from an overdose of morphine, taken the even- 
ing previous. Left no children. 

CuLBEKTsoN, Thaddeus Ainsworth. Bom 
about 1826, at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Sophomore. In 1848 entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary. In 1849 taught school 
in Virginia. In the spring of 1850, being out of 

37 



health, arranged with the officers of the Smith- 
sonian Institution to make a tour up the Missouri 
River for collection of specimens of animal and 
vegetahle life. This he did in company with his 
brother, Alexander, who had been connected 
with the American Fur Trading Company. On 
his return, made an interesting report, embrac- 
ing a narrative from April 27, 1850, to July 6, 
1850, which the institution included in its fifth 
annual report to the Board of Regents. He re- 
turned in good health with a prospect of a long 
life. Later in the year suffered an attack of a 
prevailing disease and died after a few weeks' 
illness, in his twenty-fourth year. 

CuTHBERT, Alfred. Born 
_ January, 1826, in Savannah, 

jj^^^^y Georgia. Entered Junior. 

ijS K After leaving college, lived 

V* "^ \i on his plantation in Jasper 
County, Georgia, the life of 
a literary man and planter. 
Although inheriting a large 
number of slaves, was op- 
posed to the institution, and 
arranged for the deporta- 
tion of such as were willing to go with the 
American Colonization Society, and to manumit 
the rest. Spent a large portion of his time vis- 
iting friends in the North. During the Civil 
War served as a private in a cavalry company 

38 



Alfred Cuthbert 

Taken at 44 



in the Confederate Army. After the war, con- 
tinued his visits North, and died at Morristown, 
New Jersey, December, 1880, in his fifty-fourth 
year, of apoplectic seizure. Married, 1856, eldest 
daughter of Eev. S. S. Davis, of Augusta, Geor- 
gia. Had two children, son and daughter, resi- 
dents of Augusta, Georgia, 1897. 

Dalrymple^ Aaron Pit- 
ney. Born November 21, 
1824, at Dover, Morris 
County, New Jersey. En- 
tered Sophomore. Studied 
medicine. Held position in 
Bellevue Hospital, New 
York City, for one year, 
then, as surgeon on United 
States Mail Steamship ' ' At- 
lantic." In 1856 opened an 
office in New York City, was appointed a police 
surgeon and also surgeon of the Twelfth Regi- 
ment, National Guards, New York. In the Civil 
War, entered the service September 11, 1861, as 
surgeon, with rank of major. Was with the ex- 
pedition against Fort Royal, Beaufort, Fort 
Pulaski, and other Southern points. In 1862 
was promoted to the rank of Brigadier Surgeon 
of Volunteers, and soon after was appointed 
chief medical officer of the Southern Military 
District, with headquarters at Charleston, South 
Carolina. Held his medical appointment till 

39 




Aaron Pitney 
Dali-ymple 

Taken at 39 



close of the war, February 2, 1866, was honor- 
ably mustered out. After the war, resumed his 
practice in New York City and continued it till 
within a couple of years of his death. Was mem- 
ber of the New York County Medical Society, 
The Loyal Legion, and the New York Princeton 
Club. Died of paralysis, at his home in New 
York City, February 26, 1894, in his seventieth 
year. Left a widow and one son. Was buried 
at Mount Freedom, Morris County, New Jersey, 
about four miles from Dover. Married, in 1853, 
Ellen Hutchens,of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
She died January 23, 1896. 

Davison, John Fin ley. Born about 1826 in 
(reported) Newark, New Jersey. Entered 
Sophomore. C^ommenced the study of medicine 
in New York City. Relinquished on account of 
feeble health and died in Newark, New Jersey, 
January, 1850, in his twenty-fourth year. 

DiLLARD, James W^illis. 
Born December 17, 1826, in 
Sussex County, Virginia. 
Removed to North Carolina. 
Entered Sophomore. En- 
gaged in ])lanting in South- 
ampton and Nansemond 
counties, Virginia. Married, 
in 1856, Sarah Browning 
Cross, Nansemond, Virginia. 

40 




James Willis Killard 

Takfii :it M 



Health was much broken by the reverses of the 
Civil War, and removed to Norfolk, Virginia, 
and entered the business of cotton commission 
merchant. Died May 20, 1882, in his fifty-sixth 
year, leaving one son, now (June 20, 1907) 
professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, 
Louisiana. 

Elliott, Daniel ( Stewart ) . ( The ' ' Stewart ' ' 
added by the Legislature.) Born November 20, 
1826, in Savannah, Georgia. Entered Fresh- 
man. Continued on through most of the Senior 
year, but left before graduation. Commenced 
reading law in Philadelphia. In September, 
1849, was engaged in the coast survey. Subse- 
quently lived abroad eight years. Married, June 
1, 1858, Lucy Ireland Sorrel. Was abroad on 
breaking out of Civil War, but returned, entered 
Confederate service. A¥ithdrew on account of 
ill health and died August 3, 1862, in his thirty- 
sixth year, leaving widow and two children, 
John Stewart and Matilda Moxley. 

Epperson, Benjamin H. Born November 30, 
1826, in Amite County, Mississippi. Entered 
Junior, Left before graduating. Removed to 
Texas, settling at Clarksville, where he resided 
until about 1871. Studied law, was admitted to 
the bar and practiced with marked ability and 
success. Was an active Whig politician before 
the war, and was the candidate of his party for 
governor in 1851, at a time when he was below 

41 



^^ 



Benjamin H. Epperson 

Taken at 52 



the constitutional age. In 1852 was at the head 
of the Texas delegation to the Wliig National 
Convention. Served in the 
Legislature practically from 
1853 to his death, except 
during the war and recon- 
struction. In the contro- 
versy over secession was a 
Union man, standing sub- 
stantially w^ith General 
Houston on that question. 
After the State seceded, he 
cast in his allegiance with 
the Confederacy. Having been crippled in an 
accident, he saw no active service in the army, 
but gave liberally of his time and money to the 
Southern cause. In 1866, and again in 1868, he 
was elected to the United States Congress, but 
was not permitted to take his seat. Because of 
his wide j^ersonal acquaintance and unusual 
ability, he exercised a wide political influence 
throughout the State. He was one of the first 
presidents of the old Memphis, El Paso & Pa- 
cific Railroad, now the Texas & Pacific, and was 
highly instrumental in the railroad development 
of Texas. He died in September, 1878, at his 
home in Jefferson, Texas, of nervous prostra- 
tion, in his fifty-second year. He was twice mar- 
ried, and left surviving, a widow^ and five chil- 
dren. 



42 




Julian Podras Faison 



Faison, Julian Podbas. 
Born in 1826, in Sampson 
County, North Carolina. 
Entered Sophomore. Left 
in 1846, before graduating. 
Studied law. Did not prac- 
tice. Followed planting. 
Was a delightful companion, 
and a kind and considerate 
master of his slaves. "Mar- 
ried at an early age, a woman of singular beauty 
and culture." In 1855 joined the Baptist Church, 
and in 1857 was ordained to its ministry, and 
labored in country churches, winning fame as a 
preacher and pastor. In the Civil War, served 
in the Confederate Army, first as private and 
then as chaplain, until broken health compelled 
his retirement. Subsequently continued his 
preaching, and died about 1892, in his sixty- 
sixth year, when away from 
home, in the high duties of 
his calling. 

Fish, Augustine Hallet. 
Born November 28, 1828, at 
Trenton, New Jersey. En- 
tered Sophomore. Studied 
medicine. Was a resident 
.physician of Blockley Hos- 
pital, Philadelphia, till the 
fall of 1854, when he mar- 




Augustine Hallet Fish 

Taken at 40 



43 



riecl Sarah P. Clieeseman, of Philadelphia. 
Opened office in that city and followed his pro- 
fession till about three months before his death. 
Was visiting physician to the Philadelphia Dis- 
pensary and one of the physicians of the Char- 
ity Hospital. Was never robust. Died August 
3, 1872, in his forty-fourth year, at Cooperstown, 
New York, while in pursuit of health, being a 
consumptive, and was buried in Ewing, Mercer 
County, New Jersey. 

FoRTiER, PoLYCARP Lucius. Was boru April 
27, 1827, on the family plantation, Jefferson 
Parish, Louisiana. Entered Senior and gradu- 
ated with the class, then returned to his plan- 
tation home. Married, August 25, 1847, Louise 
Labranche. Engaged in planting. Gave 
special attention to the cultivation of orange 
trees and was considered an authority in 
that line. He also became a contractor for 
construction of levees, and acquired a repu- 
tation in filling the roadbed of Morgan's 
Louisiana & Texas Railroad from New Or- 
leans to Berwick Bay, as it was an en- 
gineering feat and herculean task that 
no other parties could be induced to 
undertake. He died, November 21, 1879, 
at the home of E. F. Garcia, in New Or- 
leans, of disease of the liver, in his fifty-first 
year. 

44 




Robert Foster 

Taken at 60 



Foster, Robert. Born 
December 20, 1826, at Bath, 
Maine. Entered Sopho- 
more. Commenced teaching 
in Bloomfield Academy, 
New Jersey. In 1857, with 
his brother-in-law, Charles 
M. Davis, erected and 
opened a school for boys. 
Two years afterwards 
opened the Dudley English Classical School in 
Brooklyn. In 1856 became the superintendent of 
the Collegiate Department of the Brooklyn 
Polytechnical Institute, and held the position 
till his death, March 6, 1894, in his sixty-seventh 
year. He was also secretary of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, and president 
of the Union for Christian Work. Married first, 
in October, 1853, to Alida Robinson, of Thomas- 
ton, Maine. She died three years afterwards, 
of consumption. Married second, Febru- 
ary 17, 1859, to Augusta Swain, of Brook- 
lyn. Left surviving, his widow and four 
daughters. 

Fountain, Ezra James. Born about 1826, 
at Peekskill, West Chester County, New York. 
Entered Junior. Studied medicine. In 1852 
was employed as surgeon on the Panama Rail- 
road, with his classmate, John M. Adler. In 

45 




Ezra James Fountain 



1853, on account of impaired health, returned 
North and located at Davenport, Iowa, where, 
in 1855, he was joined hy 
Adler. They practiced 
there, associated together, 
till his death, March 29, 
1861, in his thirty-fifth year. 
Adler writes, June 13, 1887 : 
"I was with him when he 
died, from an overdose of 
chlorate of potash, with 
which he was experiment- 
ing, a victim of his zeal and 
enthusiasm in the prosecution of medical inves- 
tigation. Was the best medical practitioner I 
ever knew." Married in 1856 to Miss Bur- 
roughs, of Davenport, Iowa, who survived him. 

Glassell, John. Born 
August 16, 1828, in Fau- 
quier County, Virginia. 
Moved to Culpepper 
County. Entered the Junior 
class. After graduating en- 
gaged in farming. In De- 
cember, 1858, moved to De 
Soto Parish, Louisiana. 
Served as a private in the 
Confederate Army til) the end of the war. In 
1886 was ordained a preacher by the Presbytery 
of Red River, and was sent to the Southern Gen- 






John Glassell 

Taken at ?:> 



46 



eral Assembly, in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1888. 
'A few years after graduation, married Mary F. 
Thomas, of Culpepper, Virginia. Issue, nine 
children — three boys and six girls. His wife 
died in 1891. A few years later, was stricken 
with paralysis. Several strokes followed. 
April 4, 1902, his son writes that his father was 
quite feeble and nearly blind. 

GosMAN, John. Born 
March 19, 1826, near Ithaca, 
New York. Entered Junior. 
Engaged in teaching. 
Taught in Virginia, 1849 to 
1851 ; in South Carolina and 
Georgia, 1851 to 1857. Prin- 
cipal of West Jersey Acad- 
emy, Bridgeton, New Jer- 
sey, 1859 to 1868; of a 
boarding school at Spring- 
boro, Ohio, 1871 to 1881; of the Doylestown 
Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1882 to 1890. Taught 
at other places, and at his death. May 25, 1903, 
was considered one of the foremost educators 
of the country. In 1853, married Sarah P. Fur- 
man. At the time of his death was an elder in 
the Doylestown Presbyterian Church. He died 
in his seventy-eighth year. 

Geant^ Seth Hastings. Born June 6, 1828, in 
Marshall, Oneida County, New York. Entered 
Freshman. Left during Sophomore on account 

47 




John Gosman 

Taken at aS 




Serb tiaslings Grant 

Taken at 56 



of an attack of pneumonia; returned during 
Junior, but finding it too difficult to keep up 
with the class, left without 
graduating, then followed a 
somewhat literary life. 
Was first with the publish- 
ers, "Wiley & Putnam," of 
W^\^' New York City. Then ap- 

■**- ^ pointed librarian of the Mer- 

cantile Library Association 
of the City of New York. 
Held the position for seven- 
teen years. During that 
time, in 1850, became the editor of Norton's Lit- 
eran/ Gazette and Publishers' Circular. In 1853, 
secretary of the Meeting of Librarians in New 
York City. Was an officer of the Athenaeum 
Club. In 1855 visited Europe, examining libra- 
ries ; there met Thackeray and arranged a course 
of lectures in New York City. In 1860 entered 
on a general brokerage and real estate business. 
In 1873 prepared the annual report of the New 
York Produce Exchange. In 1882 was ap- 
pointed private secretary of Franklin Edson, 
mayor of New York. In 1883 was appointed 
comptroller of the city, and on retiring, served 
one year as vice president of the National Bank 
of New York City. Married, October 14, 1858, 
Margaret Van Antwerp, New York. Issue, 
three children. June 4, 1848, united with Cen- 



48 




William Shepherd 
Grymes 

Taken at 45 



tral Presbyterian Church, subsequently with the 
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Has 

served as deacon and ruling elder thirty years. 

Grymes, William Shep- 
herd. Born April 3, 1825. 

in Orange County, Virginia. 

Entered Sophomore. Left 

before graduating. Studied 

medicine. In 1850 settled 

in Gordonsville, Virginia, 

and practiced medicine and 

surgery with distinguished 

success till the breaking out 

of the Civil War. Accom- 
panied the local volunteers and soldiers to Har- 
per's Ferry, April 17, 1861. Was appointed sur- 
geon of the Thirteenth Regiment, Virginia In- 
fantry — General A. P. Hill's regiment — and 
was promoted brigade and division surgeon. 
Served continually to the close of the war at 
Appomattox, April, 1865. He attained great 
distinction as a surgeon, and was regarded with 
great affection by the soldiers. Married, June 
1, 1870, Miss M. A. Bernard, who (1897) sur- 
vives him, with two daughters and two sons. 
Died March 26, 1891, aged sixty-five, universally 
regretted by the profession and the public. 

GuERARD, Edward P. Was born November 20. 
1827, in Charleston, South Carolina. Entered 
Sophomore. Graduated. Was assigned a 

49 




Edward P. Guerard 

Taken at 21 



speech at Commencement; subject, "English 
Radicalism," x\fter graduation, traveled two 
years in Europe. On his re- 
turn, engaged in rice plant- 
ing. Spoke French and Ital- 
ian and understood German. 
Married Theodora C. Gail- 
lard in 1855. Was taken ill 
in 1858, continued in poor 
health, and died in 1865, in 
his thirty-eighth year, of 
some stomach trouble, leav- 
ing widow and two children. 

Howard, Francis Key. Born October 25, 
1826, in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Sopho- 
more. Left before graduation. Studied law. 
Practiced for some years. In 1858, during the 
mob rule in Baltimore, prior to the Civil War, 
gave up his i^rofession and 
became one of the editors of 
the Baltimore Exchange, 
and in 1859 one of its pro- 
prietors. September 13, 
1861, he was arrested by the 
military of the United 
States and confined first in 
Fort McHenry, then in Fort- 
tress Monroe, then in Fort 
Lafayette, and finally in 
Fort Warren, Boston, until November 27, 1862, 

50 




Francis Key Howard 

Taken at 4.') 



when he was unconditionally released. He pub- 
lished two pamphlets in 1863, on the subject of 
his imprisonment and the state of affairs in 
Maryland, entitled "Fourteen Months in an 
American Bastile, ' ' and ' ' The Southern Rights 
and Union Parties Contrasted." After his re- 
lease, became one of the editors and proprietors 
of the Baltimore Gazette, a successor to The Ex- 
change. Married Lydia E. Hollingsworth Mor- 
ris. Issue, six children. Died in London, May 
29, 1872, in his forty-sixth year, and was buried 
in St. Paul's burying ground, Baltimore, Mary- 
land. 

Johns, James Montgom- 
ery. Born January 28, 1828, 
at New Castle, Delaware. 
Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
ied law and practiced his 
profession until his death. 
Died March 20, 1880, in his 
fifty-third year, at Center- 
ville, Maryland. Married, 
June 13, 1851, Eliza Hopkins. 

Johns, Montgomery. Born April 22, 1828, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio; then moved to Maryland. 
Entered Sophomore. Studied medicine. Prac- 
ticed a short time in Baltimore, Maryland. Re- 
moved to La Grange, Missouri, having accepted 
a professorship in a medical college. In 1860 
returned to Maryland, purchased a farm in 

51 




James Montgomery 
Johns 

Taken at 50 



Prince George County. Practiced medicine. 
Lectured in the Maryland Agricultural College 
and in the Medical College in Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia. A few years before his death, 
decided to study for the ministry of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church, and would soon have 
been ordained. He died July 28, 1871, in his 
forty-third year, in Prince George County. 
Was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Balti- 
more. Married, September 19, 1857, Salome 
Lydia Diffenderffer. Left issue. 

Jones, Eusebius Lee. Born 
in Washington, District of 
Columbia, December 20, 
1827. Entered Junior. 
Graduated. Studied medi- 
cine. Was house surgeon at 
Bellevue Hospital, New 
York City, from May 11, 
1850, to October 1, 1851; 
then assistant surgeon. 
United States Army, to 
March 7, 1852. Was member of the New York 
Pathological Society, attending physician at the 
New York Dispensary, and house physician of 
the Demitt Dispensary from July 1, 1853, to 
July 1, 1857. Then engaged in private practice 
in New York City. Married, May 23, 1860, Julia 
Calvert Stuart, daughter of Dr. Charles Stuart, 
King George County, Virginia. She died in 

52 




Eusebius Lee Jones 

Taken at 40 



1861, leaving one son, Julian Stuart Jones, now 
(January, 1907) lawyer, Baltimore, Maryland. 
September 3, 1873, Married (second) Martha 
Moran, of New York, and shortly afterwards re- 
moved to Oakland, California, where he died 
of congestion of the lungs, January 30, 1876, 
after a short illness, in his forty-ninth year. 

Key, Chaeles Howard. 
Born July 20, 1827, in 
Georgetown, District of Co- 
lumbia. Entered Freshman. 
Studied law. Practiced for 
some years in Baltimore, 
Maryland. Married, Novem- 
ber, 1852, Elizabeth Lloyd, 
of Talbot County, Maryland. 
About 1860 retired from 
practice of the law and spent 
the rest of his life as a planter, in Talbot 
County, where he died, June 29, 1869, in his 
forty-first year, and was buried in the Lloyd 
family graveyard, at Wye, Maryland. Had five 
children, four of whom survive him. 

Lloyd, Edward. Born October 22, 1825, in 
Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Freshman. Left 
at the end of the second year. Did not gradu- 
ate with class, but was subsequently given the 
degree of A.B., and enrolled as member of the 
class of 1847. Has been engaged in farming in 
Talbot County, Maryland, all his life. Until 

53 




Charles Howard Key 

Taken at 21 




Edward Lloyd 

Taken at 80 



the Civil War, had large interests in cotton 
plantations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Ar- 
kansas. "Was member of the 
House of Delegates, Mary- 
land, in 1847, 1849 and 1884; 
of the State Senate eight 
years, and its president two 
sessions. A delegate to the 
Sound-Money Convention at 
Indianapolis, Indiana, Sep- 
tember, 1903. An elector-at- 
large for Maryland on the 
Palmer and Buckner ticket 
nominated at that convention. Married, June 
5, 1851, Mary H. Howard, of Baltimore, and has 
(December 24, 1896) four sons and three 
daughters. 

Marsh, W^illiam Wallace. 
Born August 13, 1827, at 
Schooleys Mountain, New 
Jersey. Entered Sopho- 
more. Studied law. Subse- 
quently engaged in business 
pursuits and resided in 
Schooleys Mountain, where 
his father had left him large 
property interests. W^as a 
director in several large business corporations, 
notably the Thomas Iron Company. Was an 
active member of the Presbyterian Church, and 

54 




William Wallace 
Marsh 

Taken at U:! 



an elder of the church at Hackettstown, New 
Jersey, and then of the church at Schooleys 
Mountain, being the mainstay of the latter, and 
superintendent of its Sunday school. Was 
always in the church courts. Many times a 
member of the New Jersey Synod, and twice of 
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church. Married, May 25, 1858, Ida S. Reeder. 
Died during the night or in the early morning of 
August 30, 1892, in his sixty-fifth year. Was 
found dead in his room by his son. Death was 
attributed to heart failure. Left a widow, three 
daughters and one son. 

Martien, Alfred. Born 
May 5, 1828, in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. Entered 
Senior. Engaged with his 
father in the book-publish- 
ing and importing business. 
In 1854 visited Europe and 
spent six months in travel- 
ing. In 1861 succeeded to 
his father's partnership in- 
terest in the newspaper The Presbyterian. 
Afterwards became proprietor and publisher. 
In 1872 introduced stereotyping of books by the 
papier-mache process as an addition to his print- 
ing business, being the pioneer of that kind of 
work in this country. Subsequently started 
several new periodicals, using illustrations in 

55 




Alfred Martien 

Taken at 39 



advertising them, then a new idea. In 1865 was 
elected a trustee of Lafayette College, in Eas- 
ton, Pennsylvania; continued as such twelve 
years. Kesigned in 1877. During his trustee- 
ship, erected the dormitory known as "Mar- 
tien Hall," in memory of his father, who had 
been a trustee. From 1865 to 1884 held many 
prominent positions in connection with the Pres- 
byterian Church, in which he was a ruling elder ; 
a member of its Board of Domestic Missions, 
its Board of Publication, of its Annuity Com- 
pany, and of its General Assembly at Cincin- 
nati in 1867. After parting with his interests 
in the newspaper, printing and publishing busi- 
ness, became secretary and treasurer of a large 
paper mill, then treasurer of a textile manufac- 
tory. After retiring from the latter, has been 
practically without occupation. In 1872, upon 
the death of Augustine H. Fish, the first secre- 
tary of the class, was appointed his successor, 
and has been continued as secretary ever since. 
Married, February 1, 1855, Saidie Bella Smith, 
of Philadelphia. Issue, one son and two 
daughters. 

Maxwell, Charles Edward. Born May 18, 
1826, in Savannah, Georgia. Entered Sopho- 
more. Studied medicine. Practiced with Dr. 
Richardson in Savannah, Georgia. In order to 
perfect himself in his profession, subsequently 
attended lectui'es at the University of Pennsyl- 

56 




Charles Edward 
Maxwell 



vania, Philadelphia. While returning from a 

visit to some friends at Basking Ridge, Xew 

Jersey, was taken ill with 

dysentery and stopped at a 

hotel in Morristown, New 

Jersey. A physician and 

his uncle, the Rev. Dr. C. C. 

Jones, and his wife were 

summoned. They arrived 

only in time to see him count 

his pulse by the watch and 

say, "Must this beating 

pulse he stillf" He died Take„at25 

shortly after, April 2, 1852, in his twenty-sixth 

year, the same day that he was to receive his 

diploma. His classmate, Seward, who was in 

Morristown at the time, performed the sad duty 

of keeping watch over the corpse, and wrote to a 

classmate, ''Poor Maxivell, how suddenly and 

quickly icere all his fine hopes blighted.'''' 

McCay, Thomas Scott 
Henderson. Born in 1826, 
in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 
Entered Senior. Studied 
law. Practiced in New Or- 
leans, Louisiana. In 1855 
was elected to the State Sen- 
ate of Louisiana. In 1856 
was United States District 
Attorney at New Orleans, 

57 




Thomas Scott Hender- 
son McCay 



and held other important offices of public trust. 
When the Union forces took and occupied New 
Orleans, he left the city. Returned after the 
surrender of General Lee and resumed the prac- 
tice of his profession. His health, however, had 
become so much impaired that he was obliged 
to close his office, and for the last few years of 
his life lived at the home of his sister, Mrs. 
Sarah P. Bernard, in Lake Providence, Lou- 
isiana, where he died, September 28, 1882, in his 
fifty-sixth year. In 1855 married Georgine 
Luzenberg, of New Orleans. A year before his 
death, became a member of the Presbyterian 
Church at New Orleans. In announcing his 
death, the newspaper Reveille says: "He was 
a gentleman of fine personal appearance, elo- 
quent in speech and manners. He ranked high 
in his profession, and in his dag wielded great 
influence in the State." 

McFaeland, James Rob- 
ert. Born December 17, 
1828, at Charleston, Kana- 
wha County, West Virginia. 
Entered Junior. Left before 
graduating. Studied law. 
Afterwards entered the Di- 
vinity School at Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and after 
graduating went to Iowa, 
where he spent some time 

58 




James Ilobert 
McFarland 

Taken at 25 



delivering lectures that brought him into prom- 
inence in that field of work. In 1858, May 24th, 
was elected pastor of the Charleston, South 
Carolina, Unitarian Church, and in one year 
after entering upon his duties, died April 4, 
1859, in his thirtieth year, A handsome marble 
monument to his memory was erected in the 
churchyard, and in the church a tablet was 
placed giving the dates respectively of his elec- 
tion to the pastorate and of his death ; eulogiz- 
ing him as one ''^Zealous and independent in 
preaching Christ's Gospel, untrammeled ivith 
human creeds, careful in regulating his daily 
life hy Christ's precepts, and devoted to the 
propagation of God's truths; he lived and died 
a true Christian.'''' 

McKee, John Henry. 
Born January 28, 1828, in 
Beaufort, South Carolina. 
Entered Junior. Gradu 
ated. After leaving college 
removed to Charleston, 
South Carolina, and en- 
gaged in planting at Goose 
Creek, South Carolina. 
Married, December 9, 1856, 
Miss Bradford, and died in Charleston, 
Carolina, in 1860, in his thirty-second 
leaving a widow and two sons. 

59 




John Henry MeKee 

South 
vear. 




Cbarlus McKii.l 

Taken at 55 



McKnight, Charles. Born 
September 4, 1826, in Pitts- 
l)urgh, Pennsylvania. En- 
tered Junior. Studied law. 
Then visited Europe. Wrote 
letters for publication under 
the name "Marco Polo, Jr." 
After his return delivered 
a lecture in several places. 
Engaged for a time in his 
brother's rolling mill. Then turned to literary 
Xnirsuits and journalism. Bought out the Pitts- 
burgh Evening Chronicle. As owner and editor 
made it the leading newspaper of the city, and 
about the close of the Civil War sold it with 
considerable profit. Subsequently becoming in- 
terested in the Colonial history of the West, 
wrote first an historical romance entitled "Old 
Fort Duquesne"; also, "Simon Girty Pontiac," 
and several other historical novels ; besides pub- 
lished an historical collection entitled "Our 
Western Border," which had a wide circulation. 
About 1878 moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
and became editor of TJie Republican; after- 
wards to Philadelphia, where he was in the edi- 
torial department of The Press, and subse- 
quently with The Evening News. Died in Phila- 
delphia, January, 1881, in his fifty-fifth year. 
Married, about 1857, Miss Jennie Baird, of 
Washington County, Pennsylvania. She de- 



60 




Samuel John 
Milliken 

Taken at 60 



ceased December 2, 1897. They had eight child- 
ren, of whom five were living in 1905. 

Milliken, Samuel John. 
Born September 27, 1826, in 
Lewistown, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Junior. Studied 
Theology at the Princeton 
Theological Seminary. Near 
the close of the course, 
being troubled with nervous 
prostration, went to Florida. 
In April, 1853, was ordained 
as an evangelist and entered 
on the work of the ministry ; first in Georgia and 
Florida and later in New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania, More than fifteen years of his life were 
spent in Philadelphia, where he started two new 
church enterprises. Was pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church at Titusville, Pennsylvania, from 
1892 to 1897, when he retired from active ser- 
vice and went with Mrs. Milliken to visit his 
daughter, who was engaged in missionary work 
in Japan, and there engaged earnestly and joy- 
ously in forwarding the work of the missions 
for three years, when prostrated by illness, was 
obliged to undergo a surgical operation, but was 
too weak to recover from its effects and died in 
Tokio, May 15, 1900, in his seventy-third year. 
Married, September 30, 1858, Miss E. P. Gran- 
ville, of Alexandria, Pennsylvania. Issue, two 

61 



daughters and one son. The eldest daughter 
was in Japan as a missionary and with him at 
the time of his decease. 

MooEE, Isaiah N. Born in the year 1827, in 
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Entered 
Sophomore. Left during Junior year to accept 
cadetship at West Point. In July, 1851, was ap- 
pointed brevet second lieutenant Dragoons. 
Served on frontier at Fort Reading, Fort Jones, 
and in northern California. February 21, 1853, 
commissioned second lieutenant of First Dra- 
goons, and March 3, 1855, first lieutenant ; April 
20, 1861, captain, and August 3, 1861, captain 
First Cavalry. Engaged most of the time scout- 
ing after Indians. Served during the Civil War, 
in New Mexico, where he died, January 16, 1862, 
in his thirty-fifth year, whilst engaged in the 
defense of Fort Craig. 

Moore, Samuel. Born April 22, 1827, in New 
Castle, Delaware. Entered Senior. Went West 
to Michigan with his father's family. Taught 
school in Cincinnati, Ohio. Afterwards went 
to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he died April 
27, 1852, of consumption, in his twenty-fifth 
year, and was buried at Niles, Michigan. 

MuNN, Henry Benson. Born August 1, 1826. 
in Belleville, New Jersey. Entered Junior. 
Engaged in teaching, 1847-1852, at the Ashland 
Hall Collegiate School of Rev. David A. Frame, 

62 




Henry Benson Munn 

Taken at W2 



Montclair, New Jersey. Studied law with A. C. 
M. Pennington, Esq., 1851-1854. In May, 1854, 
went West and located in 
Portage, Columbia County, 
Wisconsin. Was admitted 
to the bar of the State in 
1855. Initiated a Free and 
Accepted Mason in 1857. In 
1858 was elected mayor of 
Portage, and the superinten- 
dent of its public schools 
1861-2-3-4-5. While super- 
intendent, secured the 
grounds and the erection thereon of a High- 
school building. In 1859 elected member of the 
State Legislature. In 1861 assisted Captain 
John Mansfield in raising a company for the 
Civil War, and in January, 1864, spent a week 
with him, then brevet-brigadier general in com- 
mand of the Fifth Wisconsin in camp in the 
Army of the Potomac, near Culpepper, Vir- 
ginia. In 1859 became interested in unimproved 
lands in western Iowa and Missouri. Owing to 
the depression of business in the West following 
the Civil War, removed in the winter of 1866-7 
to Washington, District of Columbia, and en- 
gaged in practice as attorney, before the United 
States Patent Office and other departments of 
the Government, in partnership, first with W. 
C. Dodge, Esq., and subsequently with Charles 



63 



F. Stansbury, Esq., class of 1840. Was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
District, March 2, 1872, and of the United States, 
October 8, 1888, and elected member of the 
American Bar Association, August 23, 1893. 
Wliile retaining his Washington business asso- 
ciations, resided for several years in Grant City, 
Missouri, as member of the firm of Munn & 
Farwell, bankers and real-estate agents. Mar- 
ried, September 22, 1881, Cornelia L. Farwell, 
and in 1884 returned to Washington; his part- 
ner, Charles F. Stansbury, having deceased, 
withdrew practically from the practice of his 
profession and devoted himself to the care of 
his private affairs and the education of his chil- 
dren. I'roni 1865 to 1877, as special correspond- 
ent of the Wisconsin State Register, wrote over 
the signatures of "Viator" and "Occasional," a 
series of letters from Washington, the Middle 
West, California, New Orleans, and other 
places. Was one of the organizers of the 
Princeton Alumni Association of the District of 
Columbia and Southern States in 1872, and has 
served as its president. Is a member of the 
University Clul), Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, and the Historical and Geographical 
Societies of the District. Has been one of the 
commissioners of Rehoboth, Delaware, a sea- 
side resort, for the past fourteen years. His 
family, consisting of his wife, two sons and two 

64 




daughters, are at this date (May 8, 1907) all 
living and residing with him. 

MuKDocH, Samuel Fridge. Born May 9, 1829, 
in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Junior. 
Studied medicine. Went to Europe and studied 
in the hospitals of Paris and Dublin. On his 
return commenced the prac- 
tice of his profession in Bal- 
timore. Was elected as 
manager and physician-in- 
charge of the House of 
Refuge. Held the position 
for twenty years and then re- 
signed. On the 11th of 
June, 1862, was appointed 
acting assistant surgeon, 
United States Army, and 
shortly after received the appointment of sur- 
geon of the Board of Enrollment for the Third 
Congressional District of Maryland; held these 
positions till mustered out at the close of the 
war. He was a member of the Medical and Chi- 
rurgical Faculty, president of the Academy of 
Medicine of Baltimore, and vice president of 
the Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. In 
1854 married Elizabeth C. Winchester. She 
died in 1900, and he followed her February 19, 
1901, in his seventy-second year. Left surviv- 
ing, a son, Mr. Turnbull Murdoch, and a 
daughter, Mrs. Nicholas P. Bond. 

65 



Thomas Fridge 
Murdoch 

Taken at 64 



Ogden, Frederic Beasley. Born July 20, 
1827, at Paterson, New Jersey. Entered Sopho- 
more. Studied law. Practiced in Paterson, 
New Jersey, five years, then removed to Ho- 
boken, New Jersey. Was Mayor of Hoboken 
1865-6. Was District Court Judge 1877-1888. 
Married, September 22, 1858, Miss Ford, of 
Morristown, New Jersey. Died, November 1, 
1893, of apoplexy, in his sixty-seventh year. 

Olden, Joseph. Was born in Princeton, New 
Jersey, January 26, 1826. Prepared for college 
and entered the Sophomore class in 1844. 
Left in 1845 on account of ill health. On arriv- 
ing at legal age became the owner of two hun- 
dred acres of land in the outskirts of Princeton, 
and engaged in farming. On his farm he 
erected a spacious dwelling 
for his residence which, with 
the farm, is known as 
* ' Spring Valley. ' ' Through 
his land adjoining Princeton, 
he laid out the street known 
as "Prospect Avenue," and 
deeded it to the town. Dur- 
ing his life was not only a 
successful farmer, but was 
also prominent in county af- 
fairs and interested in the growth of Princeton 
and the college. He married, September 9, 1851, 
Miss Mary Clemson, of New Brunswick, New 

66 




Joseph Olden 

Taken at 43 




Henry Hunter Oliver 

Taken at 25 



Jersey, and by her had six children. He died at 
his residence, February 10, 1886, in his sixty- 
first year. At the present time (March 7, 1907) 
only his widow and one daughter, Sarah E. 
Olden, now residents of Princeton, survive him. 

Oliver, Henry Hunter. 
Born in December, 1828, in 
Conecuh County, Alabama. 
Entered Junior. Studied 
law. Never practiced. Pur- 
sued the vocation of cotton 
planter on his family estate 
in Dallas County, Alabama. 
Married, June 8, 1853, Mil- 
dred M. D. George. She died 
in 1857, and he followed in 
1864, of pneumonia, in his thirty-sixth year, 
leaving one daughter. 

Orton, Samuel Henry. 
Born, in the year 1829, in 
Caldwell, New Jersey. En- 
tered Sophomore. Studied 
medicine. Was employed 
in the Bank of Commerce, 
New York City, for some 
time. At the outbreak of 
the Civil War was appointed 
an assistant surgeon in the 
Regular Army. First served in the army hos- 
pital in Newark, New Jersey, and was after- 

67 




Samuel Henry Orton 

Taken at 65 



wards placed in charge of St. James Hospital 
in New Orleans, Louisiana. After remaining 
there for a few years was transferred to the 
McDougal Hospital, Fort Schuyler, New York. 
The rank of brevet major was conferred on him 
at the close of the war, when he resigned. He 
was afterwards appointed examining surgeon 
for recruits in New York City, an office which he 
retained until 1891. Al^out this time his health 
began to fail and he sought relief from all im- 
portant duties. He died April 26, 1892, in Nor- 
walk, Connecticut, in his sixty-third year. 

PuGH, David Bryan. Born 
July 28, 1828, on the sugar 
plantation of the family in 
Assumption, Louisiana. En- 
tered Freshman. Left in 
1846 before graduating. 
Shortly after, on account of 
delicate health, was sent to 
I]urope and lived for some 
time in France. Married, 
July 7, 1859, Ellen Eustis 
Haven. Divided his time in traveling in the 
North and in looking after his sugar jDlanta- 
tion. He died of apoplexy January 29, 1886, 
at La Fourche, Louisiana, in his fifty-seventh 
year, leaving widow, two sons and two daugh- 
ters. 




David Bryan rugh 

Taken at 30 



68 




Edward F. Pugh 

Taken at 17 



PuGH, Edward F. Born 
March 20, 1827, on the sugar 
plantation of the family, in 
Assumption, Louisiana. En- 
tered Freshman. After 
graduation became an ex- 
tensive traveler in pursuit 
of health. Finally settled 
on a beautiful sugar planta- 
tion in Assumption Parish, 
Louisiana, where he lived until his death, De- 
cember 3, 1870, in his forty-fourth year. He 
was never married. His death was caused by 
dyspepsia. 

RiNKER, Henry. Born April 5, 1825, in what 
was then Southampton County, now Monroe, 
Pennsylvania, in a rural district, eighteen miles 
from Stroudsburg, Pennsyl- 
vania. Entered Sophomore. 
Graduated ivith first honor. 
Taught for a couple of years 
at Mount Holly, New Jersey, 
then for two years studied 
theology at the Princeton 
Seminary. Subsequently 

took charge of the old 
Princeton Academy, and 
then of the old Edge Hill 
school. About a year after that, was licensed 
to preach, and soon left Princeton for State 

69 




Henry Rinker 

Taken at 80 



of New York. Was there ordained as an evan- 
gelist and for some years was engaged in sup- 
plying several struggling churches. In 1856-57 
spent about a year in the State of Wisconsin in 
missionary work, and part of the time in charge 
of Carroll College. The health of himself, as 
well as that of his wife, forbade a permanent 
residence in the West. He returned to the East 
and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
at Wyoming, Pennsylvania. In 1861 took 
charge of the Newton, New Jersey, Collegiate 
Institute. During the last year of the Civil War 
enlisted in the army as a private in the Eleventh 
New Jersey Volunteers. While serving, was 
elected a commissioned chaplain of the Eighty- 
Sixth New York Veteran Volunteers, and 
served to the close of the war. Was mustered 
out at the city of Elmira, New York. For sev- 
eral years following was struggling with imper- 
fect health. In 1875 became pastor of the Dick- 
inson Presbyterian Church, near Carlisle, Penn- 
sylvania, and remained as such for nearly eight 
years. Since 1883 has lived a retired life on a 
small farm, doing evangelistic and other gospel 
work as health permitted. While at Princeton, 
in the fifties, married Mary A. Haight, of Ver- 
mont. In 1881, married, second time, Mary 
Weakley, of Mount Holly Springs, Pennsyl- 
vania. Issue (1897), three daughters. 




Joseph Menagh Ritten- 
. house 

Taken at 61 



ElTTENHOUSE, JoSEPH MeNAGH. Bom JuHG 

8, 1825, at Everettstown, New Jersey. Entered 
Junior. Entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary. Was 
ordained and installed pas- 
tor of Middle Octoraro and 
Strasburg churches, Penn- 
sylvania, November 10, 1853. 
After preaching in these 
churches with great success 
for twenty years, his health 
failed. Went to Nottoway, 
Virginia, bought an old 
plantation and occupied himself in farming. 
After four or five years, regained his health and 
resumed preaching. Being surrounded by a 
dense population of ignorant negroes, obtained 
permission to use the Court House for church 
purposes. Established preaching at three other 
places within reach of his home, and with the 
aid of the Presbyterian Board of Missions, es- 
tablished schools, and in due time built houses 
of worship and organized Presbyterian 
churches at these several places, and built 
Ingleside Seminary, now doing splendid work 
under the presidency of Rev. G. C. Campbell. 
Married, December 29, 1852, Sarah C. Hand, of 
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, a marriage 
that proved a very happy one. Died, July 20, 
1903, in his seventy-ninth year, at Crewe, Vir- 



71 




George Maxwel 
Robeson 

Taken at 50 



ginia, from a succession of slight paralytic 
strokes during the last years of his life, 

EoBESON, George Max- 
well. Born March 23, 1830, 
at Oxford Furnace, Warren 
County, New Jersey. En- 
tered Sophomore. Studied 
law. Practiced first at New- 
ark, New Jersey, then at 
Camden. In 1859 was ap- 
pointed prosecutor of the 
pleas for Camden County. 
Held the office till 1864. In 
1867 was appointed Attorney-General of the 
State of New Jersey, and served until 1869. In 
1869 was appointed Secretary of the Navy, and 
held the position until the expiration of General 
Grant's second term, 1877. In 1871 delivered 
the annual oration before the Cliosophic and 
Whig Societies. In 1879 was elected to the 
Forty-sixth Congress from the first district of 
New Jersey, and was re-elected to the Forty- 
seventh Congress. Married Mrs. Richmond 
Aulick, of Washington, District of Columbia. 
Issue, one daughter, Ethel Maxwell Robe- 
son. In 1889 moved to Trenton, New Jersey, 
where he died, September 27, 1897, in his sixty- 
eighth year, in the practice of his profession. 

Sergeant, AVilliam. Born August 29, 1829, 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered Junior. 

72 




William Sergeant 

Taken at 42 



Studied law. Practiced in Philadelphia. In 
1852 was elected to the Legislature. On the 
breaking out of the Civil War, was commis 
sioned, May 14, 1861, cap- 
t a i n Twelfth Infantry, 
United States Army, anci 
ordered to Fort Hamilton, 
New York. Was attached to 
Army of the Potomac. Was 
at siege of Yorktown, Gaines 
Mill, and Malvern Hill, June 
30, 1862. On the withdrawal 
of the army from James 
River, was present at the battle of Grroveton, 
August 27 and 30, 1862, and in the subsequent 
operations under General Pope. Was at the 
battle of Antietam. In September, 1864, was 
appointed colonel of the Two Hundred and 
Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and partici- 
pated in the movements of the army in front of 
Petersburg. In the battle of the White Oak 
Road was badly wounded, and sent to the Gen- 
eral Hospital, at City Point. Whilst being 
transferred from there to Washington for an 
amputation of the hip joint, he expired on the 
boat, April 11, 1865, in his thirty-fifth year. 
Was buried at Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, with 
the honors of war and the rights of the Masonic 
Fraternity. Married, November 8, 1853, Eliza 
Espy. Left a widow and five daughters. 



73 




Nathan A. Cooper 
Seward 

Taken at 25 



Seward, Nathan A. 
Cooper. Born November 
29, 1825, at Goshen, Orange 
County, New York. En- 
tered Sophomore. Studied 
law. Practiced in Morris- 
town, New Jersey, with 
ability and success. Be- 
came a prominent member 
of the First Presbyterian 
Church. Married, October 
6, 1852, Matilda Kockwell. She died in 1855. 
He died March 14, 1856, of inflannnation of the 
bowels, in his thirty-first year. Buried at Pleas- 
ant Hill, New Jersey. 

Shew ALTER, George Wn.- 
LiAM. Born in 1827, Jeffer- 
son County, Maryland. En- 
tered Junior. Studied medi- 
cine. Settled in Lexington, 
Missouri, where his parents 
had located. After the bat- 
tle of Lexington, Missouri, 
September, 1861, was left 
in charge of wounded of 
lioth armies, and became a prisoner ; though not 
arrested, was not permitted to return South. 
Afterwards visited his classmate. Dr. Adler, at 
Davenport, Iowa. From there, in 1864, rejoined 
the Southern army and surrendered at close of 

74 




George William 
Shewalter 

Taken at 4:'. 



the war in Texas. Returned to his home in Lex- 
ington, Missouri, and continued the practice of 
his profession till his death, November 7, 1877, 
in his fiftieth year. He never married. A near 
relative says : '"''His modesty, professional skill, 
learning, gentleness, kindness, and philan- 
thropy secured for him universal esteem." 

Shewmake, John Troup. 
Born June 26, 1826, in 
Burke County, Georgia. 
Entered Sophomore. Left 
before graduating. Studied 
law. Practiced in Waynes- 
boro and Augusta, Georgia. 
Was Solicitor-General of the 
Augusta Circuit. Attorney- 
General of the State. Mem- 
ber of the State Senate and of the Confederate 
Congress. Married, in 1851, Elizabeth Jones. 
After the Civil War devoted himself to his pro- 
fession, to the close of his life. He died in 1898, 
in his seventy-second year, having the highest 
rank in his profession, leaving four sons and 
two daughters. Residence, Augusta, Ga. 

Smith^ Samuel Baynton. Born October 3, 
1827, at Troy, Morris County, New Jersey. 
Entered Senior, from Yale. Taught one year, 
then studied law. In 1849 went to California, 
around Cape Horn. Engaged in the search for 
gold with indifferent success. Was admitted to 

75 



d^ 



John Troup Shewmake 

Taken at 55 




Samuel Baynton Smith 

Taken at 53 



the bar. Elected slieritT of Yuba County, suc- 
ceeding two predecessors wlio had been mur- 
dered. In 1850 settled in Sutter County. Was 
elected State Senator. From 1854 to 1857 was 
the law partner of the Honorable Stephen J. 
Field, who became one of the 
justices of the United States 
Supreme Court. In 1855 ap- 
pointed one of the State 
Commissioners to prosecute 
before Congress the claims 
of the State of California 
for moneys expended in its 
Indian wars. In 1861 re- 
turned to New York. Sub- 
sequently became manager of the Clifton Iron 
Works, or Company, in St. Lawrence County, 
and also president of the Chicago & Atlantic 
Railway Company. Was an active Democratic 
politician during the last thirty years of his 
life. Both in State and National conventions of 
the party was held in high esteem. His com- 
manding presence, fine courtesy, and genial dis- 
position making him influential and a favorite. 
He died suddenly, June 16, 1886, in his fifty- 
eighth year, of rheumatic heart aifection, at 
Fredonia, New Jersey. Married first, October 
30, 1856, Maria D. Cisco. She died in 1869, leav- 
ing four children surviving. Married, second 
time, November 17, 1874, Mrs. Alice B. Goff. 



76 




William Smithpeter 

Taken at 70 



Smithpeter, William. Born January 26, 
1819, in Carter County, Tennessee. Entered 
Senior, from Washington College, Tennessee. 
Was Professor of Mathematics in Washington 
College until 1849. In 1851 
studied and practiced law in 
Taylorsville, Tennessee, till 
1855. In 1857 moved with 
his family to Missouri and 
engaged in farming and 
stock-raising with success. 
In the Civil War, was 
a "Eadical Union Man." 
Married, in July, 1849. Had 
issue nine children. Left 
an estate of 2000 acres home farms. Died, 
May 13, 1904, in his eighty-fifth year, at his 
home, Bogard, Missouri, of cirrhosis of the liver. 

Stevenson, David. Born in 1822, in Newry, 
Ireland. Came to Cam- 
bridge, New York, when 
young, where he united with 
the church and pursued his 
studies. Entered Sophomore. 
Left before graduating and 
entered the Theological 
Seminary. In 1850 licensed 
by the Presbytery of Eliza- 
bethtown. New Jersey, and 
in 1851 was ordained an evangelist by the Pres- 

77 




David Stevenson 

Taken at 70 



bytery of Indianapolis, Indiana. Resided in that 
State till 1877, being ])astor there of several 
churches. Was elected State Librarian and 
wrote and jmblished a book entit'ed, "Indiana's 
Roll of Honor and Patriotic Dead." In 1864 or 
1865, delivered the annual oration before the 
Whig and Cliosopliie Societies of Prince- 
ton College, and had its honorary degree of 
D.D. conferred upon him in 188-1. In 1878 re- 
turned to New Jersey, and after holding several 
pastorates, was, in 1896, at his own request, re- 
tired from duty and settled in Perth Amboy, en- 
gaging in Sunday-school work till his death, Oc- 
tober 25, 1901, in his seventy-ninth year. Dur- 
ing his life he represented his Presbyteries in 
several General Assemblies, and was esteemed 
for his courtesy, fine humor, genial spirit, and 
eloquence, as well as for his strong faith and 
pure gospel he loved to preach. In 1887 he mar- 
ried Miss Adele Manning, who survived him. 

Stonestreet, Joseph Har- 
ris. Born December 10, 
/ 11 1826, in Port Tobacco, 

§pW SK^*; 1^ Maryland. Entered Fresh- 
man. Studied law. Ad- 
mitted to the bar. Engaged 
in agricultural pursuits, and 
pursued them very success- 
fully till the commencement 
of the Civil War. Then en- 

78 




.T..si|,li ll;iri-is 
Street 

Taken at 3S 



listed in the Confederate service as private in 
an artillery company. Was promoted to lieu- 
tenant and served till the surrender at Appo- 
mattox, when he was paroled. On his return 
home resumed farming, but, under the changed 
conditions, with poor success. In 1901 was at- 
tacked with paralysis, from which he suffered 
until the day of his death. Was Justice of the 
Peace for five years. He died, August 5, 1895, 
in his sixty-ninth year, on his home farm, near 
Laplata, Charles County, Maryland, and was 
buried in Mount Rest Cemetery. Was twice 
married. First, to Ann Gwinetta Harris, June, 
1857. She died the following December. Mar- 
ried, second time, August 4, 1870, Emily Fergu- 
son, who, with three children, survived him. 
Was a ''good son, brother, husband and father, 
and was respected by all with whom he was 
brought in contact. ' ' 

Strothee, John Hunt. Born (date unknown) 
in St. Louis, Missouri. Entered Sophomore. 
Shortly after graduating went to Europe with 
his mother and sister. He pursued no special 
vocation. Never married. Died in 1861. 

Sturgess^ John Reynolds. Born in 1827, in 
Burke County, Georgia. Entered Sophomore. 
Left for Yale College before graduating. 
Taught school four or five years. Then studied 
law and practiced with success in Waynesboro, 
Georgia. Was member of the Georgia Legisla- 

79 



ture 1857-1859. In the Civil War. Was, in 
1861, first lieutenant of the Burke Guards, and 
in the reorganization of the military forces of 
the State for the Confederate service, became 
major and then colonel of the Third Georgia 
Kegiment. Was killed, July, 1862, at the battle 
of Malvern Hill, in his thirty-fifth year, while 
leading his regiment, and was buried on a 
farm near the battlefield. After the war his 
remains were brought from Virginia and re- 
interred in the Waynesboro Cemetery, Burke 
County, Georgia. 

SwoPE, John Augustus. 
Born December 25, 1827, at 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Junior. Studied 
medicine, and practiced for 
some years. Then engaged 
in financial pursuits and 
succeeded his father as 
president of the Gettysburg 
National Bank. In 1884 
was elected to Congress from the Nineteenth 
C'Ongressional District, Pennsylvania, and re- 
elected on the expiration of his first term. At 
the termination of his second term declined 
further political honors, and, locating in Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, became interested 
in establishing the Washington Loan and Trust 
Company, and subsequently was elected its vice 

80 




.lulm Augustus Swope 

Taken at 7S 




William Taylor 



president, which position (1905) he still holds, 
and is actively engaged in discharging his 
duties. Married twice. First to Emma C. Wirt 
and second to Blanche Mitchell. 

Taylok, William. Born 
Jnne 30, 1827, near Berry- 
ville, Clarke County, Vir- 
ginia. Entered Sophomore. 
Left in 1846, before grad- 
uating. Followed farming 
in his native county until 
the commencement of the 
Civil War, when, April, 
1861, he enlisted with the 
Clarke County Cavalry, with 
rank of major, in the Confederate Army. Was 
in command of his company at the first battle 
of Manassas, and was wounded shortly after- 
wards. Subsequently continued with the army 
until its surrender at Appomattox, when he re- 
turned to his farm in Clarke County, where he 
lived to the time of his death, December 4, 1891, 
in his sixty-fifth year. Married, May 15, 1849, 
Miss Gertrude McGuire, and on his decease left 
a widow and four children. 

Tingle, William Stuart Williamson. Born 
November 28, 1826, at Snow Hill, Maryland. 
Entered Junior. Left before graduating. 
Studied law. Practiced with success at Snow 
Hill and in the State. At the breaking out of 



81 




William Stuart Wil 
liamson Tingle 

Taken at 3U 



the Civil War was arrested 
for supposed disloyalty and 
held as a suspect. He died, 
February 3, 1866, in his 
fortieth year, from the ef- 
fects of a bullet wound at the 
hands of a colonel of cav- 
alry, with whom he had a 
controversy, believing that 
he was the party instru- 
mental in having him arrested as a suspect dur- 
ing the war. 

Todd, George W. Was Born in 1826 at Salis- 
bury, Maryland. Entered Freshman, 1843, and 
left at the end of the Sophomore year. Studied 
medicine at the Maryland University, graduat- 
ing in 1847. Settled in Salis- 
bury. There practiced his 
profession for many years, 
and became the leading phy- 
sician of that section of the 
State. Was a member and 
ruling elder of the Presby- 
terian Church and promi- 
nent in its councils. In 
1849 married Miss S. Fran- 
ces Hooper, and died, June 
13, 1875, in his forty-ninth year, of Bright 's dis- 
ease. 




George W. Todd 

Taken at 49 



82 



ToLAND, Henry. Born June 18, 1828, in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered Junior. 
Studied medicine. Then went abroad on ac- 
count of ill health. Returned, and died in Phila- 
delphia, April 23, 1858, in his twenty-ninth year. 
Was never married. 



Wellford, Beverley Ran- 
dolph, Jr. Born May 10, 
1828, in Fredericksburg, Vir- 
ginia. Entered Junior. 
Was the Valedictorian of 
the class. Studied law. 
Practiced in Fredericksburg 
and the surrounding coun- 
ties. In December, 1854, re- 
moved to Richmond, Vir- 
ginia. Continued his practice 




Beverley Randolph 
Wellford, Jr. 

Taken at 71 



On the break- 
ing out of the war and during its continuance, 
v/as engaged in the War Department of the 
Confederate States. After the war, resumed 
practice. In 1870 was elected judge of the Cir- 
cuit Court of Virginia, and continued to hold the 
office till 1904, when he retired. Was Grand 
Master of Masons in Virginia, 1878-1880. Was 
made a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian 
Church, Richmond, in 1870. In 1879 delivered 
the address before the Whig and Cliosophic 
Societies of Princeton College. Married, March 
3, 1858, and (1897) had three surviving children 
— two daughters and one son. 

83 




William Henry Welsh 

Taken at 48 



Welsh, William Henry. 
Born February 23, 1826, in 
the borough of York, York 
County, Pennsylvania. En- 
tered Junior. Studied law. 
Practiced in York. In 1853, 
accompanied James Buch- 
anan, minister to England, 
as private secretary, an at- 
tache to the United States 
Legation. Was present at the Ostend Confer- 
ence. In 1855, was elected State Senator from 
York. Served two terms of three years each, 
and a portion of the time as speaker. In 1856, 
became one of the proprietors of the York Ga- 
zette, Democratic, and for several years its 
principal editor. In 1860, was president of the 
Democratic State Committee and chairman of 
the Democratic State Central Committee. In 
1861, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 
opened a law office. In 1863, with two other 
prominent journalists, founded the Philadel- 
phia Age, and devoted his time to its editorials. 
In 1872, removed to Baltimore, Maryland, pur- 
chased a controlling interest in the Baltimore 
Gazette, and continued at its head until 1881, 
when he retired from journalism. In 1880, was 
chosen one of the Presidential Electors for 
Maryland on the Democratic ticket. In 1881, 
delivered the annual address before the literary 



84 



societies of Princeton College. In 1885, was ap- 
pointed third anditor of United States Treas- 
ury Department. In 1887, delivered a memorial 
poem at the celebration of the one hundredth 
anniversary of the York County Academy, in 
York, Pennsylvania. He married, in 1860, 
Sarah A. Wickes, and had issu.e, four children 
— three sons and a daughter — living, May, 1907. 
She died in 1902. He died, December 2, 1903, in 
his seventy-seventh year, at the home of his son- 
in-law, George Buchanan Fife, in New York 
City. 

White, William L. Born (date unknown) in 
Richmond, Kentucky. Entered Sophomore. 
Left the following year, on the death of his 
father, September 22, 1845. 

Whitehead, John Kaist- 
DOLPH. Born 1828, in Burke 
County, Georgia. Entered 
Sophomore. Left before 
graduating and entered 
Franklin College, Athens, 
Georgia. Followed planting 
in Burke and Baker Coun- 
ties, Georgia. In the Civil 
War was a lieutenant in 
Cobb's Legion, and afterwards major of the 
Fourth Regiment, Georgia. In 1863 was mem- 
ber of the Georgia Legislature. In 1851 mar- 
ried Miss Connelly, of Jefferson County, Geor- 

85 




John Randolph White- 
head 

Taken at 41 




gia. Died in 1876, on his plantation, in Miller 
County, Georgia, of apoplexy, in his forty-eighth 
year, leaving a widow and three children — one 
son and two daughters. 

Whitehead, James Troupe. Born October 
13, 1827, in Burke County, 
Georgia. Entered Sopho- 
more. Engaged in planting. 
During the Civil War 
served on the staff of Gen- 
eral Carswell. After the 
war, lived the retired life of 
a planter, and, with the ex- 
ception of attending county 
James Troupe White- meetings, took uo part in 
Taken at 41 publlc affalrs, owing to in- 

different health. He died, February 23, 1889, 
in his sixty-first year, of Bright 's disease. Mar- 
ried, in 1851, Miss Harper, 
of Augusta, Georgia, and 
left widow and one son. 



Whitehead, William 
Silas. Born March 3, 1829, 
in Newark, New Jersey. 
Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
ied law. Practiced suc- 
and was well 
all the courts of 




cessfully, 
known in 
the State. 



William t5ilas White- 
head 

Taken at 45 



Held the office of Surrogate of Es- 
se 



sex County for five years. Visited Europe. In 
1864, was elected Grand Master of Masons, of 
New Jersey, and held the office for many years, 
and was a prominent official at Masonic cere- 
monies. During the last years of his life, on ac- 
count of ill health, did not appear much in 
public. He died, February 14, 1904, in his 
seventy-fifth year, at his home, in Newark. 
Was never married. His funeral was attended 
by the leading members of the bar of the State. 

WiLLsoN, Alpheus Evans. 
Born October 24, 1828, 
Spring Hill Furnace, Fay- 
ette County, Pennsylvania. 
Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
ied law. Practiced for a 
few years in Fayette 
County, then moved to New 
London, Ohio, and there en- 
gaged in practice and farm- 
ing. On the decease of his 
wife, in 1863, returned to Fayette County, and 
there continued practice and farming, with 
residence at Uniontown. In 1873, was elected 
judge of the courts of Fayette and Green 
Counties, and served till the end of term, expir- 
ing January 1, 1884. Although struggling with 
failing health for several years, after leaving 
the bench his health did not improve, and he 
died at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, September 9, 

87 




Alpheus Evans 
Willson 

Taken at 30 



1884, in his fifty-seventh year. He married, in 
1855, Catharine Dawson, and left three 
daughters. 

Wright, William F. Born in 1826, in St, 
Louis, Missouri. Entered Sophomore. Left in 
1845. Belonged to a very wealthy family. Pur- 
sued no special occupation. Married young and 
died soon after. 



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Finis 



At the meeting of the class, June 19, 1897, at 
Princeton, to celebrate its Golden Aniversary, 
those present were : John M. Adler, M.D., Hon. 
William H. Armstrong, Professor Henry C. 
Cameron, Professor John Gosman, Alfred Mar- 
tien. Rev. Samuel J. Milliken, Hon. Henry B. 
Munn, Hon. Wm. Silas Whitehead, S. Hastings 
Grant, Rev. David Stevenson. The class presi- 
dent was Hon. Wm. S. Whitehead; secretary, 
Alfred Martien; historian, Hon. Henry B. 
Munn. 

The historian, having presented some rem- 
iniscences and sketches of the lives of some of 
the members, was requested to prepare a brief 
sketch of the lives of all the members, and, in 
connection with the secretary, to have them 
printed, together with portraits, illustrations, 
and such other matter as they might decide 
would add interest and value to the volume. 

The result is embraced in the preceding 
pages, and almost completes the record of the 
entire class. Of the eighty-five members that 
composed its undergraduate life, now, June, 
1907, sixty years after the class graduated, only 
ten are living — all octogenarians. Some of the 

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members fell early. Many lived long enough to 
play important parts in the history of their 
country, and others have continued their use- 
fulness to the present day. 

The class graduated shortly after the close of 
the war with Mexico. Electric telegraphs 
were then in their infancy. Railroads had not 
crossed the Alleghenies. Transportation 
throughout the country was mainly by stage- 
coach, canals and steamboats. No steamship 
lines or marine cables extended to foreign coun- 
tries. Since then and during the lifetime of 
the class, the country has been covered with a 
network of railroads and telegraphs from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great 
Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Steamship lines 
and marine cables have been run to every im- 
portant point on the ocean's coast. Thirteen 
new states have been admitted to the Union. A 
bloody Civil War has been fought out for its 
preservation. A foreign war, ending in the 
acquisition of distant colonial possessions, car- 
ried on. Three Presidents have been assassi- 
nated. A canal across the Isthmus of Panama 
commenced. The great West and the mineral 
regions of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska 
been developed. Large educational institutions 
and industrial plants have been established 
throughout the country. 

In all these wonderful advances of civilization 

92 



during the last half century, many of the mem- 
bers of the class have played important parts. 
Their voices have been heard and their influence 
felt in the Cabinet of the President, in the 
National Legislature, in the Legislative Halls 
of nine different States, in municipal affairs, on 
the bench, at the bar, on the rostrum, in the 
professor's chair, and in missionary work 
abroad and at home. Some have distinguished 
themselves as physicians and surgeons in medi- 
cal institutions, in the hospitals and on the field 
of battle, — as librarians, journalists, authors, 
publishers, planters, farmers, and successful 
promoters of large financial, industrial and 
educational enterprises. 

In the Civil War the class divided as they 
saw the right. Four of its members fell on the 
field of battle and others returned home with 
shattered constitutions. In all the bitterness of 
the strife, the Princeton spirit, and the bond of 
good comradeship of the undergraduate days 
was ever cherished and unshaken. At all the 
reunions of the class, which were held at inter- 
vals of five years, the members have met as 
brothers, breathing only love and loyalty to one 
another, and to their Alma Mater, Old Nassau! 

And now, as the end draws nigh, as the 
shadows lengthen, and the curtain about to 
drop, the class historian and secretary present 
this volume to the surviving members, to the 

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friends of those deceased, and to their Alma 
Mater, regretting only that it is not more com- 
plete. 

"Enough, if something from our hands has 

power 
To live and act and serve the future hour ; 
And if, as towards the silent tomb we go 
Through love, through hope and faith's tran- 
scendent dower, 
We feel that we are greater than we know." 



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